Google Trips App: A Personalized Trip Planner

Google’s prime objective is to make things easier and valuable for its users. For this reason, the search engine boss has come up with Google trips app that helps you plan each day of your trip instantly.

According to a GoodThink study, it was found that 74% of travelers feel the most stressful aspect of travel is figuring out the details.

Need of Google Trips

The life today is busy where everyone wants a break. There is a need for a new adventure if you are juggling family, school, work or the daily life demands.

Although starting a vacation could be fun but there is a lot of work that goes into planning a trip. There might be recommendations from online reviews, professional travel guides, or friends; however, figuring out how to squeeze everything you wish to do into a time frame could be stressful.

In order to reduce the hassle and help travelers enjoy their hard-earned vacations, Google introduced a new mobile app, Google Trips, to help its users instantly plan each day of the trip with just a few taps of a finger.

How Does Google Trips Work

Being a personalized tour guide, Google Trips contains key categories of information like day plans, things to do, reservations, food & drink, and more, so that you have everything you need at your fingertips.

You simply need to tap the ‘Download’ button under each trip to save it to your phone. The entire app is available offline.

With Google Trips, you can choose your own adventure. The app shows you a variety of day plans featuring the most popular daily itineraries, for the top 200 cities in the world. The search engine giant has automatically assembled the local gems, the most popular attractions, and sights, into a full day’s tour on the basis of historic visits by other travelers. For instance, you are visiting Delhi. You can choose from multiple day plans like “Red Fort”, “India Gate” etc.

Planning Each Day of your Trip

On the basis of time constraints and different interests, there is no itinerary good enough for one-size-fits-all solutions for a perfect trip. Google plans the each day of your trip like magic.For example, the online reviews recommend you to see the Taj Mahal, and you are looking for suggestions on things to do near that spot. In that case, you will have to press the “+” button in the day plans tile to jump into a map view containing all the top attractions in your destination.

In case, you are time constrained, you can also specify above the map if you have just the morning or evening, versus a full day. After that, you just have to tap and pin the Taj Mahal to build your itinerary around it.

The offline app, Google Trips will automatically fill the day for you. In case, you are looking for more options, you just need to tap the “magic wand” button for more nearby sights. There is an option of pinning any new spots you would like to visit, and if you want even more, with each tap of the magic wand button, a new itinerary with updated nearby attractions will show up, so you can build your own custom itinerary in a couple of minutes.

Travel Information in One Place

It could be tough to keep a track of all your hotel, restaurant, flight, and car reservations when you are traveling. With the help of Google Trips, all your travel reservations are automatically gathered from Gmail and organized for the user into individual trips, so you don’t have to search and dig up those emails.

You will be able to find that within the reservations title even without internet connection.

Best Google Trips App Features

Here are some of the best Google Trips features:

1. Travel Information is Easily Accessible

Planning for traveling is never too easy; therefore, Google Trips is designed in a way that it makes accessing your travel information even easier. For instance, if you need to access your booking confirmation number, are curious how long your flight is, or want to know which all hotels are available for reservation, one swipe on your smartphone puts everything at your fingertips.

2. Importing Itinerary

Google Trips will scan your Gmail account for old and new travel itineraries. The app efficiently curates the suggestions as per your needs and requirements by seamlessly pulling in your airline reservations and travel dates.

3. Google Trips App Works without Internet Connection

We all rely on Wi-Fi connection for almost everything, our hotel reservations, routes to our destinations, best dine-in restaurants in foreign countries. But what if there is no international data plan, you can’t pull up the hotel’s address. Well, with Google Trips, you need no internet connection or Wi-Fi. You will be able to access your Travel itinerary without these!

4. Guide you What to do

There are tons of thick and heavy travel guides which you have to carry around in order to have information about a new city. With Google Trips, you will see a list of the most popular sightseeing destinations that are broken up by category and easily accessible.

Once you will select the places you wish to visit, the app will tell you a phone number, address, and hours of operation. Also, you can read the reviews from people who earlier visitors.

5. Know Which Place is Best to Eat

The hardest part of traveling is finding a great restaurant to eat, especially when you are visiting a city with limitless options. You could narrow your search by clicking the ‘food and drink’ tab on Google Trips. Also, sharing some history on foods unique to the area, the app will give suggestions on dining options for every situation. For instance, you can easily find a list of family-friendly restaurants to high-end ones.

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6. Plan your Day Automatically

Planning each day of your trip is no more of a herculean task! With the help of ‘Day Plans’ option, you will be able to map out popular destinations to check out. Google Trips app provides you flexibility! If you don’t like the proposed itinerary, you can simply click the magic wand, and a new set of suggestions will be offered.

7. All your Queries are Answered

The ‘Getting around’ tab is an answer to all your queries. Users can learn more about the accessibility, efficiency, and the cost of private and public transportation.

With the ‘Need to Know’ tab, you can learn more about currency, healthcare options, and shopping neighborhoods.

Google Trips will answer any question you have about a new city! Google Trips app is available on iOS and Android which covers your from departure to return.

Google Trips app is available on iOS and Android which covers your from departure to return. Which features you like the most about Google Trips? For me, it is accessing all the information without internet connection!

Sakshi is a content marketer during the day and a reader by night. She writes content sprinkled with a twisted imagination. She has done her graduation in psychology from Delhi University and has an insane love for history.